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Introducing Shanaqui: Beeminder Support Czar
Tuesday, October 30th, 2018
Nikki Walters is Beeminder’s new Support Czar! The Support Czar (a position previously held by such luminaries as Alice Monday and Chelsea Miller) is... »
Beeminder ♥ Strava
Friday, October 12th, 2018
Portland Beeminder Meetup: The Birds and The Bees Meet Again
Thursday, September 20th, 2018
We mean literal birds this time, because the Beeminder meetup is going to be at Chapman school on the evening of Saturday, September 22 from 6pm to 8pm, when a massive swarm of swifts fly into the enormous chimney of a school building. It’s a weird Portland thing, ok? Also it’s walking distance (sort of — a... »
Beeminder ♥ Toggl
Friday, September 7th, 2018
We have so many opinions about time tracking! To start, there are three fundamental ways to track your time: Manually Passively Stochastically For passive tracking, you should install RescueTime (and hook it... »
Feature Announcement: General Mercy
Wednesday, August 22nd, 2018
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the Earth and derailing on a Beeminder goal meant getting a week of respite. That is still in fact the default. After derailing you get a week of safety buffer. It gives you »
Beeminder Scholarships to Attend Quantified Self 2018 in Portland
Saturday, August 4th, 2018
By coincidence the global Quantified Self conference is in our own hometown of Portland this year, September 22-23. Some of you will recall it was in Amsterdam last year and »
Slytherin 404 Errors
Thursday, July 19th, 2018
UPDATE for webdev nerds: We realized we meant “403 Forbidden” rather than “401 Not Authorized”. Here’s a little information leak we noticed and fixed some months (ok, the better part of a year — blush!) after we publicly launched in late 2011: Say our user Alice has two goals. One is her book reading... »
A Monastery is a Commitment Device
Friday, June 29th, 2018
Huge thanks to David Howell (see also his impressive Beeminder gallery) for valiantly coming to our... »
Beeminder in the Wall Street Journal Every Five Years
Wednesday, June 13th, 2018
Guess who’s covered in the Wall Street Journal again! You’re very good at guessing. It may not count as the front page this time (unlike last time) since this front page article doesn’t start talking about Beeminder... »